Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Eating Disorders
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-7384165-FZ
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield University Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Psychiatric Nurse (Adult Eating Disorders)
NHS AfC: Band 6
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are excited to announce we are recruiting a full time Band 6 Specialist Nurse Practitioner/CPN for our new Enhanced Treatment team (ETT) which will provide support in the community and in patients homes to improve accessibility. If you are a dynamic nurse looking for a challenge with the opportunity to shape this new team, then please consider applying. No previous eating disorder experience is necessary and full support will be given to develop expertise in this area. Community experience and crisis management experience as well as a full UK drivers’ licence would be desirable.
You will take clinical responsibility for the clients allocated to you under the supervision of the Team Leader and Advance nurse practitioner. You will deliver and provide nursing evidence-based treatment, that of Clinical Management and Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) which you will be trained in. The post holder will be expected to support clients from the Wandsworth, Richmond, Sutton, Merton and Kingston in their homes and the community. You will be expected to provide physical health monitoring where required and keep up to date with all the required mandatory and statutory training.
Main duties of the job
The role requires the post-holder to take supervised clinical responsibility for a caseload of clients suffering from eating disorders and to provide specialist clinical nursing care to clients under the supervision of the Team Leader and advance nurse practitioner. This will include conducting new patient assessments into the service, acting as named nurse for clients under CPA, being instrumental in involving clients in planning and evaluating their treatment and also where required providing physical health monitoring. The post holder will liaise with other services or professionals as necessary, co-ordinating the effective transfer of in-patients to the community team, and undertake group work as appropriate. The post holder will be expected to maintain excellent documentation/record keeping and correspondence, and work as part of the MDT team to achieve the highest possible care for the client group. Liaising with clients’ families and carers as appropriate and to carefully plan discharges and aftercare is also essential.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In addition to the fundamental knowledge and skills of nursing care, the post holder will be expected to develop their understanding of how to work therapeutically with adults with eating disorders. Specialist mental health nurse practitioners with current NMC registration (Band 6 Nurses) will hold a caseload of clients and work therapeutically on an individual and group basis, using a variety of skills and may also be required to eat therapeutically with clients as necessary.
All clinical staff will be expected to follow and work closely with trust policy and procedures, including lone working, safeguarding and risk assessment procedure and have sound knowledge of the Care Act. As part of the nursing process, staff will be expected to manage timely data quality, ensuring that KPI’s are updated, including the accurate and safe reporting of incidents, provision of reports and information to support the safety and wellbeing of the client (e.g., to local MAPPA & MARAC meetings). The job description will detail the other expectations of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse.
- Mentorship qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Master’s degree.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
- Significant relevant clinical experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Experience as a preceptor / mentor.
- Knowledge of clinical governance and audit.
- Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation.
- Understanding of Care Co-ordination under CPA.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of taking responsibility for a ward / clinical unit.
- Experience of engaging / supporting clinical research projects
- Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas
- Experience of teaching. e.g. lecturer practitioner/preceptorship
- Experience of recruitment and selection of staff
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tom Pursey
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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